T.J. Maxx Backs Away From Ivanka Trump as President Assails Nordstrom
Source: NYT
Last week, employees at T.J. Maxx and Marshalls got very clear instructions about where to put signs for Ivanka Trump products: in the garbage.
The TJX Companies, the retailers parent company, told employees not to display Ivanka Trump merchandise separately and to throw away Ivanka Trump signs, according to a note to employees on Wednesday, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times.
Effective immediately, please remove all Ivanka Trump merchandise from features and mix into the runs, the note read. Runs refers to the normal clothing racks where the majority of products hang. All Ivanka Trump signs should be discarded.
A spokeswoman for the TJX Companies, Doreen Thompson, confirmed that the message had been sent to stores.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/business/ivanka-trump-nordstrom-tj-maxx.html
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)Botany
(70,581 posts)So how did Trump "win" anyway?
bravenak
(34,648 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)Senators reading Coretta King's letter, reports of ppl flooding into Repuglic congressmen's meetings with constituents angry about ACA being destroyed, now this. YAY!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)It will fuck Trumps shit all up. Please let him get more bad news. I want him to cry in public. I feel it coming. A full on bawl.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Trumputin, it's coming down now you dicktorial asshole
George II
(67,782 posts)nikibatts
(2,198 posts)Stronger together!
CountAllVotes
(20,878 posts)Just a little FYI ...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)They've just mixed it in with the other merchandise and not advertising or displaying it separately. Will they order more of it, or just sell what they've got and be done with her?
dembotoz
(16,832 posts)might be fiscally stupid
George II
(67,782 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)If they discontinue it and sell out, that's one thing. Just running it off the shelf instead of an end or special display is completely a different thing.
underpants
(182,878 posts)BTW TJ Max and Marshall's aren't exactly high end stores. I was surprised that she let her oh-so-fabulously-glorious lines be sold there.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)Dumpster dive it, wait a few years, and put it on eBay.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)what kind of business folks are they? Business and politics do not mix
This is indicative of all the whining they have been doing about "respect" They must have thought that once president people would fawn over their brand
Instead they are pariahs Big business mistake
FSogol
(45,526 posts)lottery.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)For themselves and those who enable their criminal and constitution-shredding moves.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Well, of course they do, but it's easier to get away with it when it isn't so brazen.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)But this is retail consumer business, and woman's fashion to boot
They should've known they would take a hit after the p-grabber comments
The retailers are just following their invoices which plainly are demonstrating her line is a non seller
Their brand name is Trash now. Nobody is going to touch it
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)The floor. On the clearance racks I saw a lot of markdowns on her items. My sister and I were in a Marshalls before the election and I saw some cute boots when I saw they were hers I put them back and pointed out they were hers, my sister made a noise that made me laugh. A few minutes later I saw another woman look at the boots and when she saw they were ivanka she threw them down. I laughed and she looked at me and gave me a look of agreement.
renate
(13,776 posts)Before Trump ran for president, she had never given me any cause to think she wasn't a nice person. In fact, I liked her. In the documentary "Born Rich" she seemed to be very down to earth and natural.
And it's been occurring to me that she is perhaps the only person in Trump's circle who might be a voice of reason whom he would actually listen to. Maybe her husband too, I don't know the first thing about him. But she might be realizing that the only sane person who could possibly succeed at being a check on him is her. We all want her to stand up and call him on his bullshit, but that would be completely counterproductive. She knows that he won't listen to anybody who confronts him, and she also knows better than anyone in the world how his mind works.
So perhaps she's sticking around, not speaking out against him, not because she's in on her father's plans but precisely because of the opposite. She can't even say "hey, guys, I'm on your side" to the people who are trashing her, or her access to Trump would be cut off. So she has to watch her image being dragged down with her father's and say nothing to defend herself.
It's just a theory, but I do really think there's a good chance that she is our last bulwark between us and complete and utter catastrophe.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)surely she more than anyone knows how unqualified he is
Ivanka is very much part of the Trump destruction
logosoco
(3,208 posts)I seem to recall stories about how she stole/copied designs of another person. I am pretty sure if her dad's ties were found to be made in horrible overseas factories, her stuff is being made the same way. It looks to me like she was willing to have her dad's new job help her brand.
She doesn't seem very nice to me, in this light.
LisaM
(27,830 posts)in rent-controlled buildings. He also seems to be very motivated by revenge. So yeah, they seem normal in comparison to the rest of the gang, but in reality, not so much.
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Love shopping at your store and for sure it will continue noting this action by your Executive Team!!!
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)probably bots
byronius
(7,401 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Rosa Parks. A She was warned, nevertheless, she persisted meme had been trending. I just happened to check in when the RWers were surging in on it.
The first two whose profiles I looked at had like 8000 tweets, no followers and followed no one.
Of course, there were also a lot of real deplorable Trumpistas spewing their ignorance with belligerence.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)benld74
(9,909 posts)being worn in South Afrika. Similar to those of NBA championship losing team jerseys,,,,,,
gay texan
(2,471 posts)Her clothing and shoe lines totally sucked. She's as clueless as her dad.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Donate them to your closest homeless shelter. Let Trump stew on the working poor wearing his daughter's clothes.
AC_Mem
(1,979 posts)I really don't have an issue with IT (her initials are interesting...), but I will say, I went to Steinmart last night and her outfits are all on the clearance racks. They are also fairly unattractive and look like they would be Ill-fitting. So, add Steinmart to the list...
llmart
(15,552 posts)before I posted. Glad to see someone else noticed that Steinmart carried her crap.
Donkees
(31,453 posts)llmart
(15,552 posts)Boycott them too! Let them know you won't be shopping there. I already did this a week ago.
Cha
(297,655 posts)is TJMaxx backing away from ivanka? Didn't quite get that in the article.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)The point being, I haven't set foot in any of the retailers that marketed her stuff for years. Otherwise I'd be sounding off bigly telling them I'd make my own clothes rather than frequent their establishments.
Now if Ivanka starts selling sweats at Costco, I'll be in big trouble.